Leaving the hydro logging yard, I looked at the two letters with similar contents and different signatures, and I fell into deep thought.

Put these two letters in the hands of Kemira? No, it's going to cause quite a stir, and it wouldn't be worth it if it happened to me.

What did nothing happen when these two letters were destroyed? Not quite right, after all, I have promised them to deliver the letter, and I may be here for a few more days.

In that case, I decided to turn around and return the forged letter to them, so that I could please both sides without causing any inconsistencies.

After that, I won't take on any more random tasks!

……

I went to the Creekwood Trading Store, took out the letter that Fahndal had forged, and pushed the door open.

"Swan, I've got a letter for you here......"

Before I could finish speaking, I noticed another person standing in front of the counter, a face that overwhelmed me.

"Zhilu said, Swan is not here, the letter is placed here for me first, and I will pass it on to him." The girl, Kemira, took the letter from my hand, put it under the counter, and looked up at me. "Huh? I know you, the guy who bragged at the tavern last night, what are you writing to Swann for? Swann may be a little flamboyant, but I don't want him to be daydreaming like you! ”

Kemira took the letter out again, ready to check its contents.

It's really daylight to see ghouls, just to take a shower and walk around, why is Kemira here now...... It was then that I remembered that Swann was only helping out at the store, and that the grocery store was run by Kemila's brother, and that it was not strange that Kemira was here.

"Wait, don't look at other people's privacy, and I didn't write it to him, it was...... Farndal wrote it, and asked me to bring it to him. ”

"Farndal wrote? That's even more important, what fools can they talk about, what if it's an invitation to a duel? ”

Seeing that Kemira had already taken out half of the letter in the envelope, it seemed that there was no room for turning back. I stood helplessly, holding the letter that Swan had forged, waiting for the plot to develop further.

……

The girl looked at the letter quietly, then showed a puzzled expression, and finally understood the meaning of the letter, and threw the letter on the ground with a bad face.

"You just said this is a letter from Farndal to Swan? Tell me what the hell is going on! The girl thought of what I had said, saw the strangeness in it, recovered from the anger she had just had, and questioned me.

I briefly explained what had happened and handed her another letter as well. If the letter forged by the wood elves can still be read as a joke, then Swan's forged letter expresses a naked insult.

The girl couldn't believe that the two friends who had been around her every day had secretly slandered her in private, and she angrily threw the letter aside and threw herself on the table and sobbed.

……”…… My brother and I are from the Empire, and my hometown was scarred by the Great War of the World Realm thirty years ago, so my parents came to Skyrim Province far from the war, and finally decided to settle in Creekwood. At that time, the town was just a lumber yard, and many outsiders who fled the war ran it into a small town together with the locals. ”

“…… I've been with Swann for a long time, and I've chosen him in my heart. My brother was also very happy with Swan, so he asked him to help with the shop. Faindal came from a distant place, and I was fascinated by the many new things he brought with me, so I recently got a little close to him, which caused a misunderstanding between Swann and Farndal. ””…… Swan's grandfather and father were both troubadours, and so was Swan. I envied Swan's experience of studying in Solitary City, and I wanted to be a troubadour, but my brother valued his grocery store even more. I had to come to the tavern every night and ask Swann little by little. Swan supported my idea and even offered to help me with the shop. Together, we earn money to raise money for my future tuition. ”

“…… I also knew that Dawswan was good to me, and understood that his purpose was to get me to leave Farndal, but why didn't he tell me directly? The words on this letter hurt me so much...... The inscription reads Faindal, but these humiliating words are from his pen, and every word is Swan's voice! ”

I sat next to the girl, listening to her cry, comforting and enlightening from time to time, but more often than not, I remained silent.

I wasn't the mastermind of the incident, but I did act as a trigger. I have a great responsibility for the sad girl in front of me. Things are not without a turnaround, the girl already has a choice in her heart, what I can do is to fulfill the two of them, and the second is to let the third person leave this place. As for what I can do specifically...... Although I don't know each other well, I'm not bad for money.

"I have a one-and-done solution, do you want to hear it?"

The girl wiped away her tears and looked at me in a daze.

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The next morning.

As I expected, there was a sharp knock on the door early in the morning. I opened the door, and behind it was an anxious Swan.

"Mr. Tsukishita, please forgive me for my rudeness, I have something urgent to ask you."

"Please."

Kemila had never returned since she left this morning, leaving a letter and a gold coin on her desk at home, saying that she had received a grant and had decided to study in Dugu City. Because you met Kemira yesterday, may I ask ......," Swann hesitated for a long time, and finally spat out the last few words, "Is that the funder you?" ”

It seems that this guy's brain is very bright, I prepared a lot of rhetoric in advance, and now it has been broken by Si Wanyi's words, but I don't know how to pick up the road.

After thinking about it for a while, I decided not to say anything and handed the letter that Kemira had left with me to Swan.

Swann nervously accepted the letter, and only after reading it did he gradually show a relieved expression.

"Xie Lu Xie...... You are so kind to us! If there's anything I need in the future, Swann is ready to do it!" ”

"Kemira is still waiting for you not far outside the city, go and say goodbye to Kemira first, remember to apologize to her, your letter made her sad."

Swann happily left the room, and Musk pouted, "You're like a believer in Mara." ”

"Anyway, it's worth it to get rid of a troublesome thing and get a sense of gratitude. What's more, in my hometown, it is a great good thing to sponsor poor college students. ”

"You're going out again?"

"Hmm."

"Your thoughtfulness is very touching, it's just that food is not a necessity for me, don't let other people disturb my research."

“…… Zhilu said, uncle (si) uncle (zhai)! Is this reel that hard to deal with? ”

"It's easy for you to wrap the scroll around your waist twice, it's comfortable and warm. Now that the two layers of patterns are overlapped and etched, it takes a lot of effort just to separate them, not to mention the final decryption process. ”

"Aha, I'm sorry for you...... How long will it take to be parsed? ”

"Let's take a good walk, I'll tell you when it's over."

Well, hopefully not for too long, and I don't know what my friends and relatives on Earth will be like now. Ay...... My family and friends may be sad about the plane crash, but I can't tell them that I'm safe, and it's a real source of anxiety.

Anyway, live as you want, seize the time to feel the wonders of this world, and don't let yourself be left with regrets when you go back. Anyway, I'm still in good shape, and I can't surprise ^_^ them when I go back, I don't know if I can show off the magic I learned on Earth.

……

The water-powered lumberyards by the White River were empty, and the wood elves had probably gone hunting.

I'm curious about what kind of wood elves who are close to nature are keen on logging and hunting, which seem to be environmentally destructive. Musk's explanation for this is that wood elves live in forests, and since ancient times, only wood and wild animals can use the resources around them, so they are not afraid to cut wood and hunt animals for survival.

The wood elf named Fahndal won't stay here for long. I learned from my conversation with him that he was here solely for the sake of Kemira. Kemira was sponsored by me to study in Dugu City, and now Ximu Town has no special meaning to him, and there are many more beautiful things in Skyrim that he should discover.

I strolled leisurely along the town's roads, soaking up the ease that everything was done, but soon I had to put away the smile on my face. I bumped into a familiar face, which meant that a new mess was coming my way.

The blonde guy in the red uniform in front of me also remembered me. At that time, he and I met one as a condemned prisoner in the army and the other as a clerk in the army, and we met in the Helgen Fortress. Then the dragon attacked, and I escaped, and he was nowhere to be found. I thought that he and I would never have any intersection in the future, but now we actually met here.

I thought about what to do, and realized that I had no resistance if he had screamed in the street. I could only stand nervously in place, holding a calming spell in my hand, and staring at him with a wary gaze.

"Your Excellency the Magician, please relax your guard, my name is Hadava, and the previous incident in the Helgen Fortress was a misunderstanding, I hope you don't take it to heart. Since we can all survive that day, it means that we are destined, so why don't we find a place to sit. The blonde guy also felt the awkwardness of the atmosphere and reached out to me and extended a friendly invitation.

The other party was interested in showing affection, and I didn't want to get into trouble with the army without being sure, so I dispersed the magic in my hand, shook hands with him by name, and followed him into the town's blacksmith shop.

……

The meeting between the army clerk and the condemned prisoner was a matter of secrecy, so Hadava led me to his uncle's blacksmith shop.

"Uncle Alvor, I'm talking to a friend about some hidden things, borrowing the cellar."

"No problem."

……

Hadava explained to me what was happening at that time. During my time at Helgen Fortress, I missed out on some valuable information due to language barriers, so I am now listening very carefully and asking questions from time to time.

"General Tullius discovered the path of the Ulfric Stormcloak and launched a perfect surprise attack, killing them all and preparing to escort them back to the Imperial capital for trial, but the general changed his mind and wanted to be executed on the spot at Helgen Fortress."

According to Hadava, Ufrik Stormcloak was the one who led me on the run. With a roar - no wonder he wanted to stuff a rag in his mouth - he murdered the High King of Skyrim Province, Toig, and provoked a rebellion, triggering a civil war in Skyrim.

"So I was shot while wearing a Storm Cloak uniform?"

"You're wearing the blue chain mail of the Stormcloak Legion, but I noticed that the clothing underneath the armor is the red style of the Imperial Legion, so I'm guessing you're just a scavenger who was unfortunate enough to get involved."

"Thank you so much. I remember you were pleading for me, but your captain was shaking his head. ”

"I'm very sorry. The timing and place of your appearance were so unfortunate that in order to leave nothing to chance, the captain decided to put you and the Loristed horse thief on the execution list. I couldn't convince the captain to change an order that seemed reasonable, she was a stubborn and serious woman. ”

Ha, thinking of the female captain who ordered my execution, I really don't know what to say about her. Let's say that she did it herself, but I would give the same order from her point of view, and there seems to be no reason to let go of extremely suspicious people like me in enemy clothes during the war. Say she's dutiful, if the dragon doesn't come out to stir things up, I'm going to have it in her hands--hehe, I don't want to die like this inexplicably.

By the way, the dragon seems to be coming at me too, why did both sides want to kill me, but in the end, they let me survive? Could it be that the dragon just passed by and squirted me, and that it had another purpose?

The Helgen Fortress at that time, except for me...... One is the general of the Imperial Legion, Turius, and the other is the leader of the Stormcloak Legion, Ufrik, and probably only the two of them are the most valuable targets. In the end, Hadava told me that General Tulius was safe and sound, and I saw Ufrik flee to the rooftop.

Alduin's action rewrote the mortal end of the rebel leader Ulfric, could it be that the two of them colluded? Well, unlikely, this conspiracy theory is outrageous, and neither of them is the same species......

Thinking of this, I asked about Hadava's information about the Stormcape Legion.

"More than twenty years ago, the Human Empire suffered heavy losses in the war with the elves and was forced to sign a contract with them on the Platinum Pagoda in the capital of the Empire. One of the contracts requires us to renounce our faith in Talos. Talos is the hero and pioneer of the Nords, the greatest emperor, the elves only accept the belief in the eight Holy Spirits, and we Nords worship Talos as the ninth Holy Spirit. The Imperial people were forced by the situation to accept this agreement, much to the displeasure of the Nords in Skyrim. A few years ago, the power of the elves began to infiltrate Skyrim Province to promote the implementation of the Platinum Treaty, and Ufric took this opportunity to launch a rebellion in the name of restoring the faith of Talos, independence from the Empire, and resistance to the elven invasion. His army is called the Stormcloaks, and some of the Nords who are dissatisfied with the status quo have joined him, and there are even many Nords in the Imperial Legion who sympathize with him......"

Belief is an unsolvable knot on earth, and the knowledge that Musk left me tells me about the real existence of gods in this world, which is even more troublesome. Fortunately, the nature of the war is a struggle between the two regimes for legitimacy, and the damage to the people of Lebanon should be much smaller.

Despite all that Hadawa had said, I still had little understanding of the confrontation, so I asked him for his personal opinion on the war.

"Ulfric, he has the perfect reason to start a rebellion. But war only brings suffering, not to mention a civil war that brings us flesh and blood. Did you know that one of the people who was scheduled to be executed that day was the younger brother of the lumberyard owner, Larov, who had left Creek Town to join the Stormcloaks, had been captured in the last ambush, and had not been heard from since the events of Helgen Fortress...... Two days ago, the owner of the lumberyard rushed to Helgen, which was already in ruins, and wondered if she had discovered her brother's whereabouts. ”

I remember that when he fled with Ufrik, he had called out the pronunciation of Larov to the two soldiers leading him in front of him, and there should not have been a second person named Larov. Since Larif has joined the Stormcloak, he is certainly not the corpse of the Imperial soldier I stripped of his clothes, but the Stormcloak soldier who escaped from the rooftop with Ufrik.

I told Hadawa about Larov. Hadava was pleased, but then changed back to a sad face. After a little thought, I understood the reason - it was better to die early in the mouth of the dragon than to die at the hands of my compatriots on the battlefield in the future.

Speaking of dragons...... I asked Hadava about the dragon that had come to Helgen Fortress.